Our Aims

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• We are focusing on cooperative play and encourage turn taking and sharing.

Early Mathematical Experiences

• We continue to reinforce counting accurately during the course of play.

Physical Development and Movement

• To enhance fine motor skills by providing children with the opportunity to mark make on vertical surfaces, eg white boards, clip boards and blackboards both inside and outside.
• Vertical surfaces allow for bigger arm movements thus increasing strength and flexibility.
• Upright surfaces naturally put the wrist in an extended position that allows for better control when using a pencil.

The Arts

• The children are making their own representations of the Farm through drawing and the use of junk art.
  We would explore various animal movements and noises and incorporate these into our rhymes.
  This is linked to our annual trip to the Ark Farm.

Language Development

• Children will be encouraged to use prepositions during the course of play- eg on top of, beside, under, over etc. put the cow in the barn?”
• The children are encouraged to explore syllables and we continue to support them clapping out sounds in their name and the names of their peers.

World Around Us

• Children are naturally curious and ask relevant questions to gain information.During this topic we discuss the different farm animals and the names of their young, what they eat and how they are looked after on the farm.
• We also develop an understanding of the work on the farm and how it is important to our daily lives.